Dinefwr Park & Castle Main Exhibition Space

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The first of Pat Bullen-Whatling’s three hanging ‘Celtic Circles’ has been raised - there is still a great deal to do yet though.

 

Boards, supplied by the National Trust, have been assembled and arranged around three of the walls. The black door in the left hand corner of the back wall will be covered and used to house a screen for the projector to show two of Pat’s short art films: ‘Micro to Macro’ a study of how inspirational images change under the artist’s hand, and, ‘Light Statue’ a postmodernist film of a strange and unexplained glowing apparition filmed in the woods of Dinefwr estate at night.

 

 

 

 

As can be seen from the photograph to the right the Old Laundry room is a vast space - but even so, Pat had great difficulty deciding what to leave out of her display. Some of her favourite works could not be included as she wished to concentrate the exhibition on her focus on the Dinefwr estate and the local area - including her home town of Llandeilo.

 

With her three ‘Celtic Circles’ hung, each one smaller than the last, and focusing the viewer’s eye on the ‘virtual’ twig circle in the photograph at the end, the centre-point of the room is established.

The rest of the work Pat has decided to show is lined up around the walls in preparation to choosing which picture should accompany which on the boards around the room.

 

 

Small ‘D’ hooks are attached to each piece (having removed the existing fittings that were required for the different hanging procedure at a previous exhibition’s venue) and the Old Laundry is given another quick tidy up and left, at ten minutes to midnight, ready to be back there before nine the next morning.

 

It is hoped that before the first visitors arrive the works will be hung, the floor swept (again) and the windows cleaned.

 

There are still sculptures to be brought in, a computer to be set up (to display this web site), a DVD to set up to continuously play the two films previously mentioned and a dozen other jobs to do. The ‘Celtic Circle’ outside is still to be finished but these last things come together quickly once you are used to them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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